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Comment by DeathMaster

The long lost hat of Nat Pagle. Surprisingly, Nat never wore a hat in the game so far.Perhaps it's been gone that long...

Comment by salvo711

This needs to be a legendary.

Comment by Sanryo

Why does the "Find upgrades" Button exist on this page? You can't get anything better than this...

Comment by vindurza

and i thought the day would never come that i would replace my weather beaten fishing hat but it seems its finally here

Comment by izaul

Are the details of obtaining this item released yet?

Comment by Fagam32

OH MY GOD! Blizzard, you are crazy.

Comment by Woozyo

Hunter hat tbh

Comment by Zoeteklem

Looks like I finally have something to replace my Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat. Now if they only made something to hold my beer while I fished...Brewhelm Too bad I can't wear both at the same time.

Comment by MrUglee

you would think they'd give more then +5 (equip) for Nat Pagle's hat

Comment by Miatog

And here I just finished my BiS fishing outfit. Just the other week finally got the boots, so I have hat, glove enchant, boots, +40 rod with +5 line. All the best stuff you could want! Then they throw this at me...ah well, at least this won't be as hard to get as the rod or the boots or the +5 line...right...

Comment by Niaw

I'm not sure if this item can be used for transmog, given it has no armour type, but it belongs to the same art set as Scouting Garb (Recolor). It's actually just a model variant on the Emblazoned Hat. So if you're after a leather version that can definitely be used for transmog, see that set.

Comment by lushas

How to gain Reputation:Standing with Nat Pagle is gained by catching daily fish. Mimic Octopus and Flying Tiger Gourami have a 1% droprate. Spinefish Alpha on the other-hand has a 2% droprate. Just like real life, Best Friend status takes 84 fish hand-ins. This means it will take between 28 and 84 days depending on how many of the three fish you turn in each day. The daily fish cannot be caught from pools, only open water.

Once you have catch a daily fish you should stop fishing its water until you have delivered it to Nat Pagle. Each daily fish is unique, so you cannot catch another while you have the first in your inventory. You can however move to a new location and catch your next fish before handing all three in. Once a daily fish has been turned in, you may fish it up again, although you will not be able to hand the new fish in until the following day. This allows you to catch three fish hand them in, catch the three fish again so for the following day all you have to do is hand them in. This is useful if you have other things planed or you got lucky with today's catch and had some spare time.

Spinefish Alpha - Caught from inland open water near Sha-touched lands, primarily in southern Kun-Lai Summit and inland Dread Wastes. Also possible to catch from The Jade Forest's Widow's Wail cave and small areas of (coastal) water around Townlong Steppes' Niuzao Temple.

It may take sometime to see each fish, with a 1% drop rate, after fishing 200 fish there is only a 86.6% chance that you will have seen the daily fish. Just be patient and keep fishing. I have personally caught both the Spinefish Alpha and Mimic Octopus on the fist catch. I have also personally spent 5 hours fishing for Spinefish Alpha until I finally got it, I actually started to think it was removed from the area I was in.

Comment by Aliandrin

That's with the best of everything available. Unfortunately, you need a mighty 825 to fish in Vale of Eternal Blossoms without catching junk. (That's assuming everything stacks, which it may well not.)

So am I completely out of my mind insofar as I'm missing something obvious, or does this hat make absolutely no difference in whether you are able to fish Pandaria's highest-level waters without catching junk?

Edit: Fixed glove link. And yes, thankyou, the spear was what I was missing.

Adding that, you can get 835, which is 10 more than you need, so theoretically you can fish in the Vale, but you will still get junk 3 out of every 5 minutes, unless you group and coordinate. (Or can you just buy multiple spears?)

Comment by sushibar

For the insane grind this thing requires, it needs to do something more than just raise your fishing level (which is unneeded if you have the +40 pole, line, boots, and the old hat)

It really needs do something like dramatically increase your cast accuracy when casting into pools, or cut your average catch time in half.

Comment by Qirajin

Seeing how he sells this to anyone exalted with him, Nat Pagle must have a lot of hats

Comment by Eillesthis

Despite what it now says above, this still requires Nat Pagle - Best Friend.

Comment by jeckylltwo

Just a question: How do I get Nat's best friend?Because I am his friend now..... but the bar is full and does not go any further....